As many as 183 special squads of officials from the PMC landed up at various schools in the city to record the actual number of students studying in the 1,050-odd schools under the civic body’s jurisdiction.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) education department embarked on one of its biggest exercises of verifying the exact number of students in its city schools on Monday.
As many as 183 special squads of officials from the PMC landed up at various schools in the city to record the actual number of students studying in the 1,050-odd schools under the civic body’s jurisdiction.
Starting from October 3, the three-day checks in schools — both aided and unaided — would do an audit of every single school and check if the number of students studying according to the roll call is true and also the staff strength.
The same exercise is being carried out across the state by various zilla parishads. Dattatreya Shendkar, primary education officer at the district collectorate confirmed the same by stating that 700 flying squads from the collectorate are on enrollment verification duty of 7,000 schools in the district.
The exercise started after a major scam was unearthed in Nanded district where Rs120 crore was spent by the government on state aided schools and where records of students and teachers were fudged. The students were only on paper and didn’t exist in reality while schools were collecting funds in their names.
After this incident, Pune district collectorate aided by municipal corporations has started an audit of aided and unaided schools from Monday to check if the number of students/teachers enrolled are correct.
“The flying squads consist of four members each and each squad has been given five to six schools to inspect over three days.
“The squads go to each school and check enrollment records and then cross verify by going to classrooms and checking each one of these students. After meeting each student, their index finger is inked just like during voting. This is to ensure that the same student is not passed off as another in a different class or school,’’ said PMC deputy commissioner KC Karkar.
Meanwhile, schools principals said students were excited and were co-operating. “The entire exercise took a couple of hours. Students were excited when officers entered the classrooms and inked them. It went off smoothly,’’ said Kamini Saxena, principal of Dr Kalmadi Shamarao High School.
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